Ecclesiastes 8:13
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But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
In other translations
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
Hebrew words
וְטוֹבvetovand goodH2896לֹא־lo'-notH3808יִהְיֶהyihyehit will belongH1961לָרָשָׁעlarasha'to the wickedH7563וְלֹא־velo'-and notH3808יַאֲרִיךְya'arikhhe will prolongH748יָמִיםyamimdaysH3117כַּצֵּלkatzellike <the> shadowH6738אֲשֶׁר'asherthatH834אֵינֶנּוּ'einenunot heH369יָרֵאyare'he has fearedH3373מִלִּפְנֵיmilifneifrom to beforeH6440אֱלֹהִים׃'elohimGodH430
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him under the sun?
- Job 14:2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
- Isaiah 3:11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
- Isaiah 30:13Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly— in an instant!
- 2 Peter 2:3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
- Malachi 3:18Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”
- Isaiah 57:21There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.“There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
- Job 20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
- Psalm 11:5The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul hates the lover of violence.
- Psalm 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
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